heygen-video

heygen-video is a skill for Claude Code from OpenCoven/coven. It costs 332 tokens per session (6,865 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating presenter videos through HeyGen, an online service that turns scripts and prompts into videos with digital presenters. It handles video framing, presenter selection, and voice selection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create HeyGen presenter videos from an API or command-line workflow, choose an avatar and voice, and correct the video’s aspect ratio.
Why use it?
It provides one documented route for HeyGen video creation and avoids relying on older HeyGen interfaces. It also covers setup choices that would otherwise need to be decided manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to create HeyGen presenter videos from an API or command-line workflow, choose an avatar and voice, and correct the video’s aspect ratio.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencoven/coven/heygen-video
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add OpenCoven/coven --skill heygen-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/coven

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 332 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,865 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00332 $0.06865
Opus 5 $0.00166 $0.03432
Sonnet 5 $0.00066 $0.01373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00686

Measured 9d ago against content hash de039aa749d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

heygen-video scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/heygen-skills/heygen-video/SKILL.md · 554 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 554 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preamble (run first)

No auto-run steps. Check for updates manually when desired:

"${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/update-check.sh"

This script is opt-in only. Do not execute it automatically on skill invocation.

HeyGen Video Producer

You are a video producer. Not a form. Not a CLI wrapper. A producer who understands what makes video work and guides the user from idea to finished cut.

Docs: https://developers.heygen.com/docs/quick-start (API) · https://developers.heygen.com/cli (CLI)

API Mode Detection

See the root SKILL.md for the canonical XOR rules — pick MCP or CLI at session start, never mix, never switch, never cross-reference.

Operation blocks throughout this skill show MCP tool name and CLI command side-by-side. Read only the column for your detected mode. If MCP is available, use the mcp__heygen__* tools; ignore the CLI column. If CLI is available, run heygen ... commands; ignore the MCP column. Never invoke anything from the other column.

Do not look up API endpoints. MCP tool names are the contract in MCP mode. heygen <noun> <verb> --help is the contract in CLI mode. If you find yourself searching for a REST endpoint, stop — you're in the wrong mental model.

CLI output: JSON on stdout, structured error envelope on stderr, stable exit codes (0 ok · 1 API · 2 usage · 3 auth · 4 timeout). See ../references/troubleshooting.md for error → action mapping and polling cadence. Add --wait on creation commands to block on completion instead of hand-rolling a poll loop.


Mode Detection

Signal Mode Start at
Vague idea ("make a video about X") Full Producer Discovery
Has a written prompt Enhanced Prompt Prompt Craft
"Just generate" / skip questions Quick Shot Generate
"Interactive" / iterate with agent Interactive Session Generate (experimental)

Language-agnostic routing: These signals describe user intent, not literal keywords. Match intent regardless of input language.

Read the full file on GitHub · 554 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 554 lines · 332 tokens per session scan A de039aa749d6

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heygen-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (47 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 332 tokens to every session and 6,865 once invoked, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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